The Doors-L.A. Woman (1971)


 

Artist: The Doors

Title: L. A. Woman

Label: Elektra

Format: LP

Cat #: EKS-75011

Year of Release: 1971

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1976 Santa Monica Pressing Butterfly Elektra

Listed Condition: VG/VG+

Sell Date: 3/21/21

Sell Price: $12.99

Discogs Last Sold: 8/12/20 G+/Generic $10.00

Low: $6.00

Median: $11.49

Average: $11.71

High:  $15.00

Current low price: $12.99

Current Number on Sale at Discogs:  1

Have/Want: 317/457

Where Sold:  Jonesboro, AR

Time it took to sell: 5 years

Where and When Bought: Worcester, Al-Bums $3.99 early 80's

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  A

Sad To See It Go: No

Jim Morrison's curtain call, L. A. Woman, is a rocking affair.  Released April 19, 1971,  a month and a half before his untimely passing in Paris on July 3rd of that year.

"Been Down So Long" is my favorite of the hits here.  In fact, there are only 3 "deep" cuts of the 10 in my view: "Cars Hiss By My Window," "Hyacinth House" and "Crawling King Snake."  When  you listen to the album start to finish, the musical themes on each side match up and those three are complimented by "The WASP," "Love Her Madly" and "Been Down So Long." Poems, loves songs and angry Blues missives.

Of course the colossal hits are the side closing epics, commercially minted in the "Progressive" FM era and codified by the Corporate Rock Era that never went away.  Both the title track and "Riders On The Storm" sound great on a bad weather Sunday afternoon.   Or anytime, really.

"L'America" opens the second side with a jaundiced eye couched in the immigrants celebration of Great American Myth.  "The Changeling" opens the record down where the drunkards roll.  He had money.  He had none.

Been down so God Damn Long.

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